SEXUALITA ONKOLOGICKY NEMOCNYCH PACIENTŮ

The diploma thesis "Sexuality of Oncological Patients" aims to explore the natural environment of the nursing unit and describes the phenomena and experiences related to the needs in the field of sexuality of patients with malignant disease. The theoretical basis works with professional literature and helps the reader to penetrate the issues of this nursing domain. It deals with the definition, concept and characterizes the influence of oncological treatment on the sexuality of women and men. At the end of the theoretical part there is an overview of tools and models for assessing sexuality and sexual health. In the empirical part, a survey of the nursing unit is conducted with the main goal of answering a research question concerning how the staff of this unit approaches the sexuality of cancer patients. During the creation of the empirical part, several different data were obtained, which was collected by a combination of several methods of qualitative design - retrospective analysis of medical documentation, unstructured observation, questionnaire and semi-structured interview. At the end of this diploma thesis is a general summary of structures, results and goals. The end contains the author's thoughts and simple recommendations for practice. An important task of this part was the preparation of a working hypothesis for the future possibility of its statistical testing, which would include the tool EORTC SHQ-C22 Sexual Health